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“I am impressed by the scale of the means and efforts used: His SIM card was disabled; the F.S.B. broke the door”

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

We should have it as good as in Russia.

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Shoo comrade...

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FBI agents manhandled Manafort and his wife during pre-dawn raid in intimidation effort
By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times
Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Just how rough special counsel Robert Mueller is playing with Paul Manafort goes back before this week’s indictment — to the FBI’s no-knock raid in July.

It has been reported that the agents checked Mr. Manafort and wife Kathleen for guns as they broke into the Alexandria condo pre-dawn by picking the lock.

A source familiar with the case told The Washington Times the search was even more intrusive: An agent patted down Mrs. Manafort before she was allowed to get out of bed.

“Agents felt up Mrs. Manafort lying in bed to see if she had guns,” the source said of the intimidation.

In all, 12 FBI agents entered the home, guns drawn, and stayed for hours.

The aggressive search of a prone sleepy woman is, the source said, a hallmark of Mr. Mueller’s top prosecutor, Andrew Weissmann. A former mob prosecutor in New York, he specializes in turning witnesses against bigger prey and is not afraid to make things rough for spouses, too.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Change the language from English to Russian and you would be hard-pressed to find any differences between here and there.

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Originally posted by THG:
Russian Trolls Hype Coronavirus and Giuliani Conspiracies

Suspected Russian government trolls are trying to pin the COVID-19 pandemic on the Pentagon; hyping Rudy Giuliani’s conspiracy theories about collusion between Democrats and Ukraine; and trying to meddle in European elections, an investigation by The Daily Beast reveals.

Working with researchers from the disinformation-tracking firm Graphika, The Daily Beast found at least 20 fake news articles pushed by over 40 suspected Kremlin-backed personas across dozens of social media networks like Facebook, Reddit, Medium, and smaller web forums.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-trolls-hype-coronavirus-and-giul
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Russian Criminal Group Finds New Target: Americans Working at Home


The New York Times; Russian Criminal Group Finds New Target: Americans Working at Home

A Russian ransomware group whose leaders were indicted by the Justice Department in December is retaliating against the U.S. government, many of America’s largest companies and a major news organization, identifying employees working from home during the pandemic and attempting to get inside their networks with malware intended to cripple their operations.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-criminal-group-finds-new-
target-americans-working-at-home/ar-BB15YE0W?ocid=msedgntp

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Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.

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Time to dust off this thread. After all, Biden's coming.

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Originally posted by THGRRI:


55 Savushkina Street, last known home of the Internet Research Agency. Credit James Hill for The New York Times


The Agency

From a nondescript office building in St.
Petersburg, Russia, an army of well-paid “trolls”
has tried to wreak havoc all around the Internet
— and in real-life American communities.


By ADRIAN CHENJUNE 2, 2015


The Columbian Chemicals hoax was not some simple prank by a bored sadist. It was a highly coordinated disinformation campaign, involving dozens of fake accounts that posted hundreds of tweets for hours, targeting a list of figures precisely chosen to generate maximum attention. The perpetrators didn’t just doctor screenshots from CNN; they also created fully functional clones of the websites of Louisiana TV stations and newspapers. The YouTube video of the man watching TV had been tailor-made for the project. A Wikipedia page was even created for the Columbian Chemicals disaster, which cited the fake YouTube video. As the virtual assault unfolded, it was complemented by text messages to actual residents in St. Mary Parish. It must have taken a team of programmers and content producers to pull off.

Who was behind all of this? When I stumbled on it last fall, I had an idea. I was already investigating a shadowy organization in St. Petersburg, Russia, that spreads false information on the Internet. It has gone by a few names, but I will refer to it by its best known: the Internet Research Agency. The agency had become known for employing hundreds of Russians to post pro-Kremlin propaganda online under fake identities, including on Twitter, in order to create the illusion of a massive army of supporters; it has often been called a “troll farm.” The more I investigated this group, the more links I discovered between it and the hoaxes. In April, I went to St. Petersburg to learn more about the agency and its brand of information warfare, which it has aggressively deployed against political opponents at home, Russia’s perceived enemies abroad and, more recently, me.

Savchuk’s revelations about the agency have fascinated Russia not because they are shocking but because they confirm what everyone has long suspected: The Russian Internet is awash in trolls. “This troll business becomes more popular year by year,” says Platon Mamatov, who says that he ran his own troll farm in the Ural Mountains from 2008 to 2013. During that time he employed from 20 to 40 people, mostly students and young mothers, to carry out online tasks for Kremlin contacts and local and regional authorities from Putin’s United Russia party. Mamatov says there are scores of operations like his around the country, working for government authorities at every level. Because the industry is secretive, with its funds funneled through a maze of innocuous-sounding contracts and shell businesses, it is difficult to estimate exactly how many people are at work trolling today. But Mamatov claims “there are thousands — I’m not sure about how many, but yes, really, thousands.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html

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Originally posted by THGRRI:


55 Savushkina Street, last known home of the Internet Research Agency. Credit James Hill for The New York Times


The Agency

From a nondescript office building in St.
Petersburg, Russia, an army of well-paid “trolls”
has tried to wreak havoc all around the Internet
— and in real-life American communities.


By ADRIAN CHENJUNE 2, 2015


The Columbian Chemicals hoax was not some simple prank by a bored sadist. It was a highly coordinated disinformation campaign, involving dozens of fake accounts that posted hundreds of tweets for hours, targeting a list of figures precisely chosen to generate maximum attention. The perpetrators didn’t just doctor screenshots from CNN; they also created fully functional clones of the websites of Louisiana TV stations and newspapers. The YouTube video of the man watching TV had been tailor-made for the project. A Wikipedia page was even created for the Columbian Chemicals disaster, which cited the fake YouTube video. As the virtual assault unfolded, it was complemented by text messages to actual residents in St. Mary Parish. It must have taken a team of programmers and content producers to pull off.

Who was behind all of this? When I stumbled on it last fall, I had an idea. I was already investigating a shadowy organization in St. Petersburg, Russia, that spreads false information on the Internet. It has gone by a few names, but I will refer to it by its best known: the Internet Research Agency. The agency had become known for employing hundreds of Russians to post pro-Kremlin propaganda online under fake identities, including on Twitter, in order to create the illusion of a massive army of supporters; it has often been called a “troll farm.” The more I investigated this group, the more links I discovered between it and the hoaxes. In April, I went to St. Petersburg to learn more about the agency and its brand of information warfare, which it has aggressively deployed against political opponents at home, Russia’s perceived enemies abroad and, more recently, me.

Savchuk’s revelations about the agency have fascinated Russia not because they are shocking but because they confirm what everyone has long suspected: The Russian Internet is awash in trolls. “This troll business becomes more popular year by year,” says Platon Mamatov, who says that he ran his own troll farm in the Ural Mountains from 2008 to 2013. During that time he employed from 20 to 40 people, mostly students and young mothers, to carry out online tasks for Kremlin contacts and local and regional authorities from Putin’s United Russia party. Mamatov says there are scores of operations like his around the country, working for government authorities at every level. Because the industry is secretive, with its funds funneled through a maze of innocuous-sounding contracts and shell businesses, it is difficult to estimate exactly how many people are at work trolling today. But Mamatov claims “there are thousands — I’m not sure about how many, but yes, really, thousands.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html

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US and allies seize website of prolific Russian speaking-ransomware gang, unlock victims’ computers

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/us-and-allies-seize-website-of-pr
olific-russian-speaking-ransomware-gang-unlock-victims-computers/ar-AA1lK3SK?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=09854706c1a046a3bffe3cd96493f104&ei=53

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Kick their asses guys.

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Originally posted by THGRRI:

Trolling for Putin:

Saint Petersburg (AFP) - Lyudmila Savchuk says it was money that wooed her into the ranks of the Kremlin's online army, where she bombarded website comment pages with eulogies of President Vladimir Putin, while mocking his adversaries.

"Putin is great," "Ukrainians are Fascists," "Europe is decadent": Savchuk, 34, listed the main messages she was told to put out on Internet forums after responding to a job advertisement online.

"Our job was to write in a pro-government way, to interpret all events in a way that glorifies the government's politics and Putin personally," she said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trolling-putin-russias-information-war-expl
ained-063716887.html?ref=gs

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I just have to add... THUGR, the reason why you so quickly and unthinkingly betrayed our nation's ideals and the Constitution on which we are founded is because you don't know what you stand for. You haven't given it a moment's thought.

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Because of your unwavering defense of Russia and Putin I believe everything you post is for the purpose of discrediting the United States and our Allies. That includes suggesting Americans are failures in all we try to accomplish. You defend Putin while suggesting Hilary has 666 tattooed on her head. There is far too much anti American propaganda posted by you encompassed within these threads for you to call me unpatriotic and anti American. No one buying it SIG.

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You're as conditioned as one of Pavlov's dogs, who were trained to salivate whenever a bell rang altho no food was in sight: The minute our political leadership wants you to stand up and cheer for "our team" you grab your pompoms. The moment our political authorities paint someone as an "enemy" you want to go to war. It doesn't matter whether the reasons are good reasons, or bad ones, or even completely made-up ones (which is the case most of the time) you unthinkingly jump.

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Pavlov’s dog, you have described yourself with uncanny accuracy. The rest is subjective assumptions and bullshit. Just like 98% of what you post in real world.

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But somehow, despite the fact that you have been fooled time and time again into supporting wars which should have never even been fought, that doesn't seems to prevent you from jumping onto the NEXT bandwagon and supporting our next act of aggression.

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This is completely made up. I have not supported any wars here. What I have done, is challenge your honesty of posting about one countries aggressions against others. I have also posted about some of the reasoning behind some of Americas actions. I did and do this to see truth posted in response to your lies.

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SIG
Yanno, I love my country, I really do. I love the ideals that it was founded on, and I would love to see us be a real force for good in the world, or at least not a force for harm. Instead, what I see is us rampaging through the world, killing hundreds of thousands (if not millions), drunkenly creating failed states wherever we "intervene", letting loose the scourge of jihadism and cravenly supporting the Saudis and other repressive regimes because our almighty dollar is threatened.
Name one of our foreign intervention success stories in the past 30 years, I dare you.
It sickens me and make me angry to see our leaders, so corrupt, cynically destroying so many and so much.

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I know you love your country; Russia. The rest is bullshit SIG. Whenever it is pointed out what Russia does you defend them while pushing their agenda. It’s that simple comrade.

Here you go SIG, look familiar. It's a picture of a Russian politician.

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Originally posted by THGRRI: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 1:30 PM

THGRRI

55 Savushkina Street, last known home of the Internet Research Agency. Credit James Hill for The New York Times

The Agency

From a nondescript office building in St.
Petersburg, Russia, an army of well-paid “trolls”
has tried to wreak havoc all around the Internet
— and in real-life American communities.

By ADRIAN CHENJUNE 2, 2015

The Columbian Chemicals hoax was not some simple prank by a bored sadist. It was a highly coordinated disinformation campaign, involving dozens of fake accounts that posted hundreds of tweets for hours, targeting a list of figures precisely chosen to generate maximum attention. The perpetrators didn’t just doctor screenshots from CNN; they also created fully functional clones of the websites of Louisiana TV stations and newspapers. The YouTube video of the man watching TV had been tailor-made for the project. A Wikipedia page was even created for the Columbian Chemicals disaster, which cited the fake YouTube video. As the virtual assault unfolded, it was complemented by text messages to actual residents in St. Mary Parish. It must have taken a team of programmers and content producers to pull off.

Who was behind all of this? When I stumbled on it last fall, I had an idea. I was already investigating a shadowy organization in St. Petersburg, Russia, that spreads false information on the Internet. It has gone by a few names, but I will refer to it by its best known: the Internet Research Agency. The agency had become known for employing hundreds of Russians to post pro-Kremlin propaganda online under fake identities, including on Twitter, in order to create the illusion of a massive army of supporters; it has often been called a “troll farm.” The more I investigated this group, the more links I discovered between it and the hoaxes. In April, I went to St. Petersburg to learn more about the agency and its brand of information warfare, which it has aggressively deployed against political opponents at home, Russia’s perceived enemies abroad and, more recently, me.

Savchuk’s revelations about the agency have fascinated Russia not because they are shocking but because they confirm what everyone has long suspected: The Russian Internet is awash in trolls. “This troll business becomes more popular year by year,” says Platon Mamatov, who says that he ran his own troll farm in the Ural Mountains from 2008 to 2013. During that time he employed from 20 to 40 people, mostly students and young mothers, to carry out online tasks for Kremlin contacts and local and regional authorities from Putin’s United Russia party. Mamatov says there are scores of operations like his around the country, working for government authorities at every level. Because the industry is secretive, with its funds funneled through a maze of innocuous-sounding contracts and shell businesses, it is difficult to estimate exactly how many people are at work trolling today. But Mamatov claims “there are thousands — I’m not sure about how many, but yes, really, thousands.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html

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